Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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James F. Woods and Elizabeth Forrester Young




Husband James F. Woods 1 2

           Born: 1812 - Milford Centre, Union Co, OH 2
     Christened: 
           Died: Aft 1890
         Buried: 
       Marriage: 1843 3



Wife Elizabeth Forrester Young 1 3

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 1844 3
         Buried: 


         Father: Judge John Young (1762-1840) 4
         Mother: Maria Barclay (      -Abt 1811) 5




Children
1 M John Y. Woods 2

            AKA: J. Y. Wood 6
           Born: 17 Mar 1844 - Greensburg, Westmoreland Co, PA 2
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 
         Spouse: Etta "Ettie" Johnson (      -      ) 3 6
           Marr: Jun 1870 3



General Notes: Husband - James F. Woods


He came to Greensburg, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, in or about 1839, when he was admitted to the bar.
In politics he was an influential whig but always declined to run for any office. After the death of the Whig party he became a republican, but later, for many years, he affiliated with the Democratic party. He was a warm personal friend of United States Senator Cowan and Ex-Governor Johnston. The law firm of Foster & Woods for a long stretch of years did a most extensive legal practice at the Westmoreland county bar. He was long a member of the Presbyterian church. Governor Johnston, while governor of the state tendered him every office that was in his power to give him, but Mr. Wood always declined to accept. He was a graduate from Hanover college, Indiana, and was a gentleman of culture and of splendid literary attainments.

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Sources


1 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 332.

2 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 179.

3 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 180.

4 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 303, 326, 332.

5 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 303, 332.

6 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 1158.


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